Gas-burner regulator



A. H. W000.

Gas Regulator. No. 31,506. I Patented Feb. 19, 1861.

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UNITED STATES PATENT GFFICE.

A. H. \VOOD, OE BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS.

GAS-BURNER.

Specification of Letters Patent No.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, A. H. 7001), of Boston, in the county of Suffolk and State of Massachusetts, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Regulators for Gas-Fixtures, GasBurners, &c., and that the following description, taken in connection with the accompanying drawings, hereinafter referred to, forms a full and exact specification of the same, wherein I have set forth the nature and principles of my said improvements, by which my invention may be distinguished from all others of a similar class, together with such parts as I claim and desire to have secured to me by Letters Patent.

The figures of the accompanying plate of d 'awings represent my improvements.

Figures 1 and 2 are vertical sections of my improvements applied toa gas burner.

One great desideratum in the construetion of fixtures provided for the burning of gas for illuminating purposes is the providing of some means or arrangement of devices, that will always allow the same amount of gas to be consumed in a given time, what ever may be the pressure of the gas in the pipes conducting the same. Another difficulty to be overcome is owing to the presenceof tarry matters in illuminating gas, the condensation and deposit of which within the gas conducting tubes has hereto fore been the cause of serious obstructions therein.

To regulate the supply of gas to the apparatus through which it is to be passed so that the quantity jetted and consumed, can be regulated at pleasure and at the same time to provide for the reception and easy removal of the tarn or glutinous matters evolved from the gas are the objects of the present invention. I effect these results by means of a peculiarly constructed regulator which may be interposed at any convenient locality between the receiving and delivering points of the gas. This regulator is so arranged as to form both a throttle valve to regulate the quantity of gas received and cause the deposit of the heavy and tarry products of the gas,and also a receptacle or basin susceptible of easy removal which otherwise obstruct the gas passages.

a a 1n the drawings represents the supply or conducting pipe for the transmission of gas to the burner Z) Z) which may be of any desired form fish-tail, Argand &c. In the pipe (4 a is formed a chamber 0, the gas being admitted to the said chamber by means of a passage Z around one side of and opening into the same at or near its center.

6 is a passage or outlet for the gas to the burner I) from the chamber'c. This chamber 0 forms the seat for a throttle valve 9, which throttle valve, consists of a cylinder it, having a proper receptacle or basin 2' formed in it for the reception and deposit of such tarry products as may be evolved and fall into the same, by the impinging of the gas, after issuing from the passage (Z, against the edge of the basin i. The throttle-valve being turned so as to allow the passage of gas througlr the conduit (Z will thus produce the effect of condensing the tarry products contained in the gas and by means of the basin receive and hold the same after such condensation. The throttle-valve is susceptible of removal for the cleansing and emptying of the basin, &c., by unscrewing the cap j of the chamber 0 which it will be evident is a very easy method of removing all the condensed tarry products of gas that are usually deposited in and obstruct the pipes. v

The above described arr; ngement also allows the discharge or consumption of gas to be regulated at pleasure, and placed within control, however the stop-cock may be turned, for by the setting of the throttlevalve or cylinder h at any desired position with regard to the gas inlet (Z; that is so as to increase or diminish the size of the inlet passage cl of the chamber 0, the quantity of gas passing through will be proportioned accordingly. The cylinder it will by its different positions allow more or less of gas to be consumed by the burner and by setting the throttle valve at any desired position then screwing on the cap j of the chamber 0, it will be evident that if the stop-cock is turned for a full discharge through the same that the arrangement of the throttle valve, &c., described will permit only a certain amount of gas to be consumed by the burner.

Having thus described my improvements, What I claim as my invention and desire to 5 have secured to me by Letters Patent is A regulator for gas-fixtures, gas-burners, &c., constructed and arranged substantially as described so as to constitute not only a throttle valve, but also a receptacle or basin,-susceptib1e of removal for cleans- 10 ing-for receiving the condensed matters or tarry products evolved from the gas.

'A. H. WVOOD. Witnesses:

JOSEPH GAVETT, A. W. BROWN. 

